Model comparison
Kinggaroo-12b-v1 vs Qwen3-8B
At Q4_K_M, Qwen3-8B is the smaller download — 5,027,783,488 bytes against 7,477,205,056.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Kinggaroo-12b-v1 | Qwen3-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 12.2B | 8.2B |
| Architecture | llama | qwen3 |
| Layers | 40 | 36 |
| Native context | 1,024,000 | 40,960 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 35 | 51 |
| Smallest quantization | 2.79 GiB | 2.12 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 6.96 GiB | 4.68 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Kinggaroo-12b-v1 | Qwen3-8B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.63 GiB | 0.56 GiB | 1.11× |
| 8,192 | 1.25 GiB | 1.13 GiB | 1.11× |
| 16,384 | 2.50 GiB | 2.25 GiB | 1.11× |
| 32,768 | 5.00 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 1.11× |
| 65,536 | 10.00 GiB | 9.00 GiB | 1.11× |
| 131,072 | 20.00 GiB | 18.00 GiB | 1.11× |